In reference to Will’s particularity-and-truth thread, Helen offers some reflections on Burke that lend themselves so well to speaking theologically that, well, here we go. My familiarity with Burke nowadays is a lot narrower, if deeper, than it was a decade ago, but I can’t really . . . . Continue Reading »
Very interestingly, over at Text Patterns Alan Jacobs evokes the depth of interdependence between the experience of material conditions and the experience of the imagination. This of course is different from the interdependence of truth and particularity but also similar. . . . . Continue Reading »
Over at The American Scene, Alan Jacobs does the public service of reminding us that those medieval Christians didn’t put Earth at the center of the universe because they were arrogant: The center of the medieval cosmos is not the most important place, but the stillest and deadest place, the . . . . Continue Reading »
Alan Jacobs over at the American Scene has asked whether it’s really true that all libertarians believe human nature is fundamentally good. He seems to think one can pull off being a libertarian who believes in original sin—"you just have to believe that our inevitable corruption . . . . Continue Reading »
The best way we can demonsrate our love for great books is ro use them in our search to discover “what we might do and . . . . Continue Reading »
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